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AMSTERDAM: A picture shows a flag at the headquarters of the NGO Greenpeace on Sept 10, 2021 ahead of the 50th anniversary of the group's founding. - AFP n
Greenpeace: An 'insane' vision that took flight 50 years ago
AMSTERDAM: A picture shows a flag at the headquarters of the NGO Greenpeace on Sept 10, 2021 ahead of the 50th anniversary of the group's founding. - AFPPARIS: "Insane" - that was teenager Barbara Stowe's reaction 50 years ago when her parents and the other founders of Greenpeace decided that they would send a boat to halt US nuclear tests. But their conviction won over Stowe and her brother Robert, who witnessed these pathbreaking meetings in...
BAABDA, Lebanon: Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Najib Mikati pose for a group photo with the newly formed government at the presidential palace yesterday. - AFP n
Lebanon's new cabinet holds first meeting
BAABDA, Lebanon: Lebanon's Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri, President Michel Aoun and Prime Minister Najib Mikati pose for a group photo with the newly formed government at the presidential palace yesterday. - AFPBEIRUT: Lebanon's newly-formed government held its first meeting yesterday to discuss ways of rescuing the country from one of its worst ever economic crises. The meeting, during which a ministerial statement is to be drafted to be...
SAN LEANDRO, California: In this photo taken on Sept 8, 2021 California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during a campaign rally against his recall election at the IBEW-NECA Joint Apprenticeship Training Center. - AFP n
California burning: Wildfires heat up governor recall vote
SAN LEANDRO, California: In this photo taken on Sept 8, 2021 California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during a campaign rally against his recall election at the IBEW-NECA Joint Apprenticeship Training Center. - AFPSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, California: California is burning. Wildfires are tearing through the US state at an alarming rate and heating up the vote on recalling the embattled governor. Democrat Gavin Newsom's detractors blame him for all of...
SYDNEY: Residents jog along the Sydney Harbor yesterday after some relaxations in COVID-19 restrictions by New South Wales state. - AFP n
Vaccinated Sydney residents picnic as lockdown relaxed
SYDNEY: Residents jog along the Sydney Harbor yesterday after some relaxations in COVID-19 restrictions by New South Wales state. - AFPSYDNEY: Virus lockdown rules were relaxed for fully vaccinated people in Sydney yesterday, with small groups allowed to meet for picnics for the first time in months. Families and friends gathered in parks and at beaches, reuniting 11 weeks after an outbreak of the Delta variant brought Australia's biggest city...
OSLO: Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, leader of the Conservative Party Hoyre, casts her vote for the 2021 parliamentary elections at Skjold School in her home town of Bergen yesterday.-AFPn
Oil sector in balance as Norway votes; 'Red-Green' opposition seen winning
OSLO: Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg, leader of the Conservative Party Hoyre, casts her vote for the 2021 parliamentary elections at Skjold School in her home town of Bergen yesterday.-AFPOSLO: Norwegians voted yesterday in a parliamentary election broadly expected to see the "Red-Green" opposition win, potentially influencing the fate of oil activities in the largest producer in Western Europe. Polling stations opened at 9 am (0700 GMT)...
In this file photo, refugee mothers from Sudan's Blue Nile State wait at a clinic in South Sudan to have their children measured for malnutrition and to vaccinate them against measles.n
WFP to slash food aid to 100,000 in South Sudan
In this file photo, refugee mothers from Sudan's Blue Nile State wait at a clinic in South Sudan to have their children measured for malnutrition and to vaccinate them against measles.JUBA: The UN World Food Programme will suspend food aid to over 100,000 displaced people in South Sudan, as funding shortages force the agency to make "painful decisions", it said yesterday. The cuts will start next month and last until January, affecting 106,000...
KABUL: Buyers browse second-hand household items for sale at a market in the northwest neighborhood of Khair Khana in Kabul.-AFPn
Fleeing Afghans sell wares at Kabul's busy flea markets
KABUL: Buyers browse second-hand household items for sale at a market in the northwest neighborhood of Khair Khana in Kabul.-AFPKABUL: Kabul's flea markets are packed with the belongings that desperate Afghans have sold at rock-bottom prices to fund their escape from Taleban rule, or just to pay for food. Plates, glasses, and kitchen appliances are piled high on makeshift tables at the outdoor bazaars, alongside 1990s television sets and old...
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SpaceX to launch private, all-civilian crew into Earth orbit
WASHINGTON: SpaceX is set to launch four people into space tomorrow on a three-day mission that is the first to orbit the Earth with exclusively private citizens on board, as Elon Musk's company enters the space tourism fray. The "Inspiration4" mission caps a summer that saw billionaires Richard Branson and Jeff Bezos cross the final frontier, on Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin spaceships respectively, a few days apart in July.The SpaceX flight...
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KUWAIT: Kuwaiti artist Maitham Abdal works on a sculpture named "Spoon of Freedom", to honor Palestinian prisoners who reportedly used a spoon to dig a tunnel from where they escaped from an Israeli maximum security prison, in his workshop in his home in Kuwait City yesterday. - Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat
NEW YORK: Winner Russia's Daniil Medvedev (right) and Serbia's Novak Djokovic hold their trophies after the 2021 US Open Tennis tournament men's final match against at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on Sunday. - AFPn
Djokovic's Grand Slam bid foiled as Medvedev wins US Open
NEW YORK: Winner Russia's Daniil Medvedev (right) and Serbia's Novak Djokovic hold their trophies after the 2021 US Open Tennis tournament men's final match against at the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in New York, on Sunday. - AFPNEW YORK: Daniil Medvedev shattered Novak Djokovic's Grand Slam dream with a straight sets victory in the US Open final here Sunday, denying the world number one a record-breaking 21st major men's...
MONZA: Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton (left) and Red Bull's Dutch driver Max Verstappen collide during the Italian Formula One Grand Prix at the Autodromo Nazionale circuit in Monza, on Sunday. - AFPnn
Once-controversial halo hailed after Hamilton escapes serious injury
MONZA: Mercedes' British driver Lewis Hamilton (left) and Red Bull's Dutch driver Max Verstappen collide during the Italian Formula One Grand Prix at the Autodromo Nazionale circuit in Monza, on Sunday. - AFPMONZA: The sight of the hefty back tire of Max Verstappen's Red Bull Formula One car crashing down towards the helmet of Lewis Hamilton at the Italian Grand Prix made for sickening viewing. The seven-time world champion was beached in his...
KANSAS CITY: Quarterback Patrick Mahomes #15 of the Kansas City Chiefs carries the ball into the end zone for a touchdown during the game against the Cleveland Browns at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday in Kansas City, Missouri. - AFPn
Mahomes sparks Chiefs comeback in season opener
KANSAS CITY: Quarterback Patrick Mahomes #15 of the Kansas City Chiefs carries the ball into the end zone for a touchdown during the game against the Cleveland Browns at Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday in Kansas City, Missouri. - AFPLOS ANGELES: Patrick Mahomes rallied Kansas City with two fourth-quarter touchdown passes as the Chiefs launched their NFL season with a thrilling 33-29 victory over the Cleveland Browns. The Chiefs, who are trying to...
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AUCKLAND, New Zealand: Boats are moored in waters in front of the Auckland city skyline, New Zealand. People are leaving New Zealand in record numbers as unemployment rises, interest rates remain high and economic growth is anemic, government statistics show. – AFP
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INCHEON, South Korea: This photo taken on Aug 8, 2024 shows a sniffer dog taking part in a demonstration of bedbug detection in passengers' luggage at Incheon International Airport. - AFP
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